Bill Text: CA AB386 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: School facilities: Efficiency and Sustainability Projects for Schools Pilot Program.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-08-16 - In committee: Held under submission. [AB386 Detail]
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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2017–2018 REGULAR SESSION
| Assembly Bill | No. 386 |
| Introduced by Assembly Member Gonzalez Fletcher |
February 09, 2017 |
An act to add Section 17654 to the Education Code, relating to school facilities, and making an appropriation therefor. facilities.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 386, as amended, Gonzalez Fletcher.
School facilities: energy efficiency projects. Efficiency and Sustainability Projects for Schools Pilot Program.
(1)Existing
Existing law expresses legislative findings and declarations that it is in the interest of the state and its residents for the state to aid school districts in finding cost-effective methods of conserving energy in school buildings maintained by school districts.
The California Clean Energy Jobs Act, an initiative approved by the voters as Proposition 39 at the November 6, 2012, statewide general election, provided for the transfer of $550,000,000 annually from the General Fund
to the Clean Energy Job Creation Fund for 5 fiscal years beginning with the 2013–14 fiscal year. Moneys in the Job Creation Fund are available, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for the purposes of funding eligible projects that create jobs in the state by improving energy efficiency and expanding clean energy generation. Existing law provides provided for the allocation of available moneys to local educational agencies and community college districts.
This bill would appropriate $20,000,000 establish the Efficiency and Sustainability Projects for Schools Pilot Program to provide funding, upon appropriation,
to the Department of Education for allocation to school districts and community college districts for a pilot program
for energy efficiency and water conservation projects. The bill would specify that a school district or community college district is eligible for those moneys only if it has applied for or received funding pursuant to the California Clean Energy Jobs Act and does certain things in connection with those energy efficiency projects, including, partners with an institution of higher education to provide energy efficiency project-based learning opportunities for pupils enrolled in kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive, or for students enrolled at a community college; leverages private investment; and utilizes state-approved apprenticeship programs and ensures access to those programs for qualified veterans who were honorably discharged.
(2)Moneys appropriated by this bill would be applied toward the minimum funding requirements for school districts and community college districts imposed by Section 8 of Article XVI of the California Constitution.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation:Bill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 17654 is added to the Education Code, immediately following Section 17653, to read:17654.
(a) The(b) A school district or community college district shall be eligible for moneys appropriated pursuant to subdivision (a) only if it has applied for or received funding pursuant to the California Clean Energy Jobs Act (Division 16.3 (commencing with Section 26200) of the Public Resources Code) and does all of the following in connection with the energy efficiency or water sustainability project for which it seeks additional funding:
(1) Partners with an institution of higher education for the purposes of providing energy efficiency project-based learning opportunities for pupils enrolled in kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive, or for students enrolled at a community college.
(2) Leverages private investment in addition to the moneys appropriated pursuant to paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section 26205 of the Public Resources Code.
(3) Utilizes state-approved apprenticeship programs and ensures access to those programs for qualified veterans who were honorably discharged.
(c)For the purposes of making the computations required by Section 8 of Article XVI of
the California Constitution, the moneys appropriated pursuant to this section shall be deemed to be “General Fund revenues appropriated for school districts and community college districts, respectively,” as defined in subdivision (f) of Section 41202, and included within the “total allocations to school districts and community college districts from General Fund proceeds of taxes appropriated pursuant to Article XIII B,” as defined in subdivision (e) of Section 41202.
